Interaction Design Methods

A journal that was written in the module Interaction Design Methods by David Wollschlegel in the second semester of the interaction design studies at Zurich University of the Arts.

25.05.2020

Teaching

What is learning and what makes a good student? What is teaching and what makes a good teacher? In todays class we taught each other small skills like using the terminal on your computer, folding a shirt in a special burrito like way, sketching a hand or constructing a fancy geo

18.05.2020

Speculative design, design, art

What is speculative design? Is it designing unconsciously or designing conjectureusely? Do I still need to do user research or can I do just whatever I feel like? And is it just about future utopian products?

11.05.2020

Innovation for all

Who does not want to be innovative – having a great idea and bring a huge benefit to society? But it is easier said than done.

04.05.2020

Visual abstractions

This weeks readings was all about data and the visual presentation of those. This weeks key learning points: * Using data to learn about the behavior of the users can be helpful to make desitions, but do not forget that data does normaly not include user experience or th

06.04.2020

Evaluation by narration

Evaluation is an important step in the process of interaction design. One way to do evaluation is narration. What is narration? In the read

30.03.2020

The question of the prototype

> The prototype is the actuation of an idea, it's evaluation, it's dissemination, it's validation all at once? Where does the

23.03.2020

The experience and the user-experience

What I missed from the reading is a clear definition of experience and user experience, how they relate or differentiate from another and how we as humans or users perceive them. Experience is firmly tied to a product as described by Peter Merholz, Todd Wilkens, Brandon Schauer a

16.03.2020

Interaction Design Methods

Teaching

Speculative design, design, art

Innovation for all

Visual abstractions

Evaluation by narration

The question of the prototype

The experience and the user-experience

Human-Computer Interaction and methods

Design in the everyday context

Perspectives of design

Deconstructing Interaction Design